EXCERPT:SAVANNAH, Georgia - Following the Oklahoma State game, Tigers head coach Steve Davenport said “embarrassment lasts a lot longer than $840,000.”
You know what Coach Davenport, losing 84-0 or 55-0 in a game where your team had absolutely no chance to win is not what should embarrass you, your staff, or your team. No, what’s more embarrassing is Savannah State’s 9-37 record since 2008 or the consecutive 1-10 seasons that followed the 2-8 campaign in 2009. Sure this is only the beginning of your second season as head coach, but you finished 1-10 last year. That is embarrassing.
And yet, Savannah State should not be criticized for scheduling these two games, they should be applauded for finding a way to make additional revenue to help fund the athletic department even when their football team is awful. It’s not like they were the only FCS program to make money by playing an FBS program. After this past weekend, FCS schools have already combined to win eight games against teams at the higher level, two shy of the single-season record.
These types of pay-for-play games are ...
The Rain started just as the SSU Marching Tigers took the field at Florida State Seminoles' Doak Campbell Stadium. This video is the band marching to their "bus". They actually marched and played for a while. No half-time show, just some clips. Video shot under the street lights and walking through puddles and mud. (Sep 8, 2012)
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